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DCC Digital Curation Manual: Instalment on Open Source for Digital Curation

Andrew McHugh

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Instalment on the role of open source software within the digital curation lifecycle. Describes a range of explicit digital curation application areas for open source, some examples of existing uses of open source software, a selection of open source applications of possible interest to the digital curator, some quantifiable statistics illustrating the value of open source software and some advice and pointers for institutions planning on introducing these technologies into their own information infrastructures. Includes Bibliography and Glossary

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Key concepts: Digital curation, Data curation, Computer science, World Wide Web, Open source, Software, Programming language